Adrian Hardy Haworth

See also: Haworth

Adrian Hardy Haworth is a Botaniste, a carcinologist and a British Entomologiste , born in 1767 with Hull and dead the August 24th 1833 with Chelsea.

He is the son of a lord of the manor, Benjamin Haworth de Haworth Hall. It is formed by tutors and is directed towards the career of legal consultant. But it has little interest for the right and around 21 years, after having inherited the manoire of his parents, it can be devoted to its true love, the Natural history.

In 1792, it settles with Chelsea where it meets William Jones (1750-1818) which will have a great influence on him. It takes part in the activity of the Société linnéenne of London, it becomes member in about it 1798. It uses the library and the Herbier of his friend Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) and regularly attends the royal Botanical gardens of Kew.

In botany, it specializes on the plants with bulbs and the Mesembryanthemum S . It is also large collector of succulent plants and one will name the kind Haworthia in homage to his work.

It founds a transitory entomological company, the Aurelian Society (third Learned society of this name), in 1812.

It makes appear important works on systematic butterfly S British. In 1802, Prodromus Lepidopterorum Britannicorum , in 1803, Haworth starts to make appear Lepidoptera Britannica . It follows the classification developped at the point by Carl von Linné (1707-1778) and by Johan Christian Fabricius (1745-1808). Its work will be exceeded only in 1857 by the Manual off British Butterflies and Moths of Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822-1892).

It also specializes in the Crevette S and is the author of several tax, in particular:

Haworth dies during an epidemic of Choléra. Its entomological collection, container: 40000 specimens, is sold with the biddings. The sale lasts seven days but reaches only the sum of 552 pounds. Its standard S is currently preserved in the Hope collection in Oxford. Its herbarium, container: 20000 specimens is also today in Oxford. Its rich person library is also sold with the bidding and is dispersed.

Source

  • M.A. Salmon (2000), The Aurelian Legacy. British Butterflies and their Collectors . Harley Books (Colchester).

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